Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Digg returns (again) as another place to read AI news.
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Google stopped a zero-day hack that it says was developed with AI
For the first time, Google says it has spotted and stopped a zero-day exploit developed with AI. According to a report from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), “prominent cyber crime threat actors” were planning to use the vulnerability for a “mass exploitation event” that would have allowed them to bypass two-factor authentication on an unnamed […]
‘Too early’ to talk IPO, Redwood Materials’ incoming CFO says
The battery-recycling and energy-storage company has hired former Tesla finance chief Deepak Ahuja, reuniting him with former Tesla CTO JB Straubel.
A million baby monitors and security cameras were easily viewable by hackers
A baby’s eyes peer directly into the camera lens. A kid with a striped shirt looks up, then away. A boy in a policeman’s costume, a gold star on his chest. A messy bedroom that reminds me of my own daughters, with an unmade bunk bed, a little girl’s hat and headband, and Hello Kitty […]
7 of our favorite deals from Amazon’s Pet Days sale
A big part of my job here at The Verge is to find deals on tech that readers will like. But in my personal life, I’m not spending anywhere near as much money on tech as I am on food, litter, and other supplies for our two cats. Sad, but true. If your life is […]
GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies
General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver data, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a proposed settlement filed on Friday, GM agreed to stop selling customer information to data brokers for five years and must give California […]
Matter and OpenADR team up to connect smart homes to the grid
Smart energy management just took a step closer to becoming simpler. This week, the organizations behind Matter, the smart-home interoperability standard, and the OpenADR protocol, which sends signals between the grid and the home, announced an agreement to work together. This should make it easier for connected appliances to participate in demand response programs (DR) […]
NYT’s Wordle to become a TV game show
The popular mobile puzzle game will become a TV game show next year.
TikTok launches an ad-free subscription plan in the UK
Users who sign up for the plan won’t see ads on TikTok, and their data won’t be used for advertising purposes.
Joanna Stern is not a robot, but she lived with them
My guest today is longtime friend of the show Joanna Stern. You all know Joanna: she is the former senior personal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, a former Decoder guest host, one of my cofounders here at The Verge, and also just one of my very closest friends. I mention that because Joanna […]